2021/2022 Season
Fall
Pride and Prejudice
by Kate Hamill, based on the novel by Jane Austen
directed by John Monteverde
This isn’t your grandmother’s Jane Austen! Bold, surprising, boisterous and timely, this is Pride and Prejudice for a new age, exploring the absurdities and thrills of finding your perfect (or imperfect) match. The outspoken Lizzy Bennet is determined to never marry, despite mounting pressure from society. But can she resist love, especially when that handsome, intelligent, and impossibly aggravating Mr. Darcy keeps popping up at every turn?! Literature’s greatest Rom/Com has never felt so full of life!
Six Performances, November 12 – 21, Fri & Sat @ 7:00. Sun @ 2:00
Beautiful Thing
by Jonathan Harvey
directed by SET Senior Audrey McCarthy
15-year-old Jamie lives with his mum Sandra and her boyfriend in a low-rise flat in a working-class neighborhood of London. Living next door is Ste, age 16, who’s abusive father often causes him to escape to Sandra’s for the night. It’s during just such a sleepover that Jamie and Ste’s tentative, awkward relationship starts to unfold, resulting in an upliftingly optimistic love story. Darting between aching emotion and sharp winning comedy, the play avoids melodramatic clichés to perfectly capture the thrill of first love!
Six Performances, December 2 – 11, Thurs, Fri. & Sat @7:00
Winter
The Revolutionists
by Lauren Gunderson
directed by SET Senior Natalie Stern
Four beautiful badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fashion icon) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the extremist insanity of 1793 Paris. This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters and how women actually go about changing the world!
Four Performances, March 10 - 13, Thurs, Fri & Sat @ 7:00, Sun @ 2:00
Spring
Matt & Ben
by Mindy Kaling & Brenda Withers
directed by SET Senior Henry Davis-Piger
Hollywood’s Golden Boys before J-Lo, before Gwyneth, before “Project Greenlight,” before The Oscars, before anyone actually gave a damn! When the screenplay for Good Will Hunting drops mysteriously from the heavens, the boys, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, realize they’re being tested by a Higher Power. From the mind of Mindy Kaling, head writer for The Office and The Mindy Project comes the Hollywood satire The New York Times called “Absolutely delightful and deliciously spiteful!”
April 13th – 16th at 7:00, and at 2:00 on the 16th
The Real Inspector Hound
by Tom Stoppard
directed by John Monteverde
This madcap metaphysical comedy by England’s greatest living playwright follows a
pair of rival theater critics as they get swept up (literally!) into the Agatha Christie-like
murder mystery they’re both reviewing. While a thick fog envelopes creaky old
Muldoon Manor, a madman is on the loose and Inspector Hound is on the case! Soon
a mysterious dead body (whom no one seems to notice or recognize) leads to startling
revelations, hair raising melodrama and an absurdly diabolical conclusion which at
long last answers the question “Who IS The Real Inspector Hound?”
Six performances, April 22 –May 1, Fri & Sat @ 7:00, Sun @ 2:00
Ada and the Engine
by Lauren Gunderson
directed by SET Senior Clara Christensen
At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, young Ada Byron Lovelace (daughter of the charismatic and notorious Lord Byron) sees the boundless and creative potential in the “analytic engines” of her friend and soul mate Charles Babbage, inventor of the first mechanical computer. Ada envisions a whole new world where art and information converge – a world she might not live to see. In this music laced story of love, friendship and the farthest dreams of the future, period drama meets STEM in this poignant pre-tech romance heralding the computer age!
Four Performances, May 5 – 8, Thurs, Fri & Sat @ 7:00, Sun @ 2:00
Auditions March 1 & 2, 2022
Black Comedy
by Peter Shaffer
directed by John Monteverde
When the lights go out, the fun begins! A young artist tries to juggle his jealous fiancé,
her strict Military father, a fussy neighbor, a drunken spinster, his mischievous ex-
girlfriend, and a millionaire art collector ALL on the very same night, and all in the
middle of a poorly timed blackout! Set in London during the swinging ‘60s, this is
classic British farce at its wildest, complete with practical jokes, mistaken identities
and physical comedy galore! “Some of the sight and sound gags are so flawless ... that
the audience is reduced to jelly" – The Chicago Tribune
Six Performances, May 26 – June 4, Thurs, Fri & Sat @ 7:00
Matt & Ben
by Mindy Kaling & Brenda Withers
directed by SET Senior Henry Davis-Piger
Hollywood’s Golden Boys before J-Lo, before Gwyneth, before “Project Greenlight,” before The Oscars, before anyone actually gave a damn! When the screenplay for Good Will Hunting drops mysteriously from the heavens, the boys, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, realize they’re being tested by a Higher Power. From the mind of Mindy Kaling, head writer for The Office and The Mindy Project comes the Hollywood satire The New York Times called “Absolutely delightful and deliciously spiteful!”
April 13th – 16th at 7:00, and at 2:00 on the 16th
The Real Inspector Hound
by Tom Stoppard
directed by John Monteverde
This madcap metaphysical comedy by England’s greatest living playwright follows a
pair of rival theater critics as they get swept up (literally!) into the Agatha Christie-like
murder mystery they’re both reviewing. While a thick fog envelopes creaky old
Muldoon Manor, a madman is on the loose and Inspector Hound is on the case! Soon
a mysterious dead body (whom no one seems to notice or recognize) leads to startling
revelations, hair raising melodrama and an absurdly diabolical conclusion which at
long last answers the question “Who IS The Real Inspector Hound?”
Six performances, April 22 –May 1, Fri & Sat @ 7:00, Sun @ 2:00
Ada and the Engine
by Lauren Gunderson
directed by SET Senior Clara Christensen
At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, young Ada Byron Lovelace (daughter of the charismatic and notorious Lord Byron) sees the boundless and creative potential in the “analytic engines” of her friend and soul mate Charles Babbage, inventor of the first mechanical computer. Ada envisions a whole new world where art and information converge – a world she might not live to see. In this music laced story of love, friendship and the farthest dreams of the future, period drama meets STEM in this poignant pre-tech romance heralding the computer age!
Four Performances, May 5 – 8, Thurs, Fri & Sat @ 7:00, Sun @ 2:00
Auditions March 1 & 2, 2022
Black Comedy
by Peter Shaffer
directed by John Monteverde
When the lights go out, the fun begins! A young artist tries to juggle his jealous fiancé,
her strict Military father, a fussy neighbor, a drunken spinster, his mischievous ex-
girlfriend, and a millionaire art collector ALL on the very same night, and all in the
middle of a poorly timed blackout! Set in London during the swinging ‘60s, this is
classic British farce at its wildest, complete with practical jokes, mistaken identities
and physical comedy galore! “Some of the sight and sound gags are so flawless ... that
the audience is reduced to jelly" – The Chicago Tribune
Six Performances, May 26 – June 4, Thurs, Fri & Sat @ 7:00
